{"id":182098,"date":"2015-12-18T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/18\/poland-is-being-poland-again\/"},"modified":"2015-12-18T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T03:57:00","slug":"poland-is-being-poland-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/18\/poland-is-being-poland-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland is Being Poland Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the Jews of Poland died in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the rest fled following antisemitic incidents post WW II.<\/p>\n<p>But Poland is Poland, and <a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/news\/327387\/poland-turns-hard-right-and-hits-the-jews\/\">they won&#8217;t let an absence of Jews get in the way of blaming them for everything<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">When some 50,000 people turned out in Warsaw recently to protest a plan by Poland\u2019s ruling party to pack the nation\u2019s constitutional court, the hard right-wing political faction responded quickly with a counter-demonstration of its own. Its counter-protest featured, among other things, a placard that mocked those claiming to defend democracy as \u201cthe committee to defend Jewish-Communist wealth.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">At around the same time in Wroclaw, Poland\u2019s fourth largest city, crowds at a parallel demonstration to support the recently elected Law and Justice party shouted, \u201cWroclaw is being de-Polanized as the Jews are buying up homes in the city.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">At another Wroclaw demonstration, held November 18 to protest a European Union plan that would see Poland admit some 7,000 Syrian refugees, demonstrators denounced the proposed immigrants as Islamists \u2014 and to somehow add to this point, they set fire to a previously prepared effigy of a Hasidic Jew holding the E.U. flag.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">God, Honor and Fatherland,\u201d the crowd then chanted.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some things never change.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/theinnerwalls.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/well-that-was-unexpected.html\">the inner walls<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Google the Kielce Pogrom.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the Jews of Poland died in the Holocaust. Many of the rest fled following antisemitic incidents post WW II. But Poland is Poland, and they won&#8217;t let an absence of Jews get in the way of blaming them for everything: When some 50,000 people turned out in Warsaw recently to protest a plan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1114,967,984,978,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antisemitism","category-bigotry","category-europe","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}